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Honestly, I Had No Clue One Senator Had Such Power

Updated June 28, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

I didn't know until I started reading it in all the papers lately that Sen. Barack Obama credits Big Oil and me for $4-a-gallon gasoline. Those stories, and the Obama campaign press outreach that preceded them, rekindled memories of the unlimited power I used to wield ("Political Speculators," Review & Outlook, June 24).

I'd totally forgotten how the stage was set for catastrophe when those greedy oil companies and the selfish public and private pension funds that own them surreptitiously spurred economic...